In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A no-frills, DIY nature preserve manned by a U.S. expat who has dedicated his life to turtle conservation.

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

This softball diamond has a culture all its own.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

Volcanic activity causes small pools of super-heated mud to boil furiously.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.